Chi Garden is a small, 1.5-acre ecological urban farm at Just Food Community Farm (2391 Pépin Court). We’ve been growing here since 2017. We were certified organic by Ecocert until 2024. Today, we continue the same organic standards through a peer-audited, community-based, self-reporting organic verification system.

This website hosts our online shop for a select range of specialty crop seeds, fermented foods, and small-batch kitchen preserves—including mushroom oil, saag, and herbal perilla drinks.

At Chi Garden, everything begins with the soil. We care for our land through regenerative, nature-based practices that build a living soil food web and support resilient plants and nutrient-dense harvests. Healthy soil grows healthy food—and healthy food is medicine. We also keep a small flock of laying hens, whose manure helps nourish our soil and close the fertility loop.

Asian vegetables from afar more often than not, are not organic in local goceries. We specialize in uncommon and rare Asian vegetables and seeds, stewarding both biodiversity and the cultural knowledge carried by these plants. One of our signature offerings, our Diversity Salad, reflects our belief that food is medicine—an idea deeply resonant with Traditional Chinese Medicine and everyday nourishment.

From May to November, we make a vibrant, ever-changing salad mix of about 20 vegetables, herbs, and wild edibles—selected from both East and West for flavor, nutrition, and curiosity.

We preserve much of our harvest through lacto-fermentation, extending the life and vitality of our crops. We offer 20+ cultured pickles year-round. Beginning in Spring 2026, our on-farm, certified fermentation kitchen will also become a space for learning and exchange—sharing fermentation skills, cultures, and practices with community members and growers.

As new immigrants, we are continually learning and re-learning—drawing inspiration from local growers, First Nations communities, and East Asian foodways. We work to reduce outside inputs wherever possible, lowering our carbon footprint both in the garden and in how we bring food to community.

Through cultivating diversity, we envision Chi Garden as more than a farm: a place for conversation, cultural connection, and imagining shared futures.